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Aruna Raghuram

Borra Srinivas RaoEnterprise

Engineer quits job to process millets; annual revenues cross Rs 1 crore

Borra Srinivas Rao’s Manyam Grains procures millets from tribal farmers. Its plant near Visakhapatnam processes and markets nine types of millets. Manyam has increased farmer incomes by 30% and freed them from the clutches of exploitative middlemen 

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